So the guys at Bethesda let it slip a few months ago that Elder Scrolls V was in the works for 2010, and a friend said he read a possible release in 2009... I'm looking for the article, but I'm friggin' STOKED about a new Elder Scrolls game coming out in the next 12-18 months!!!

I think they can learn a lot with the successes and failures of their previous landmark releases like Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3 and make ESV an absolute KICK ASS game!

I can put that on my headpiece, and with my best soul shard can get 8% less mana for casting destruction, but it won't let me do those same things on my head or chest.

I don't have this whole filling soulshards thing figured out either. I have a staff of binding, and some dragon kept resisting me on it, and a random mage I was fighting it told me I didn't have a great enough empty soul shard to store his soul.

I have a lot of enchants, but not that 25% one you mention...mostly crap ones. I am at about 30 enchanting, I must not be doing something right with it...mostly just disenchanting stuff instead of selling it.

You need to get your score up, and for stuff you're going to keep yourself, use grand soul gems. For the stuff you're selling, use the lesser ones.

I have a soul-stealing bow that I use with great effect. Mammoths produce grand souls (and the giants too, I think), so if you find the typical giant herding two mammoth things, I find a safe perch and waste the lot of them.

You need to get your score up, and for stuff you're going to keep yourself, use grand soul gems. For the stuff you're selling, use the lesser ones.

I have a soul-stealing bow that I use with great effect. Mammoths produce grand souls (and the giants too, I think), so if you find the typical giant herding two mammoth things, I find a safe perch and waste the lot of them.

Greasing extinct species FTW!

Do they respawn or are they limited?

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ZootedGranny:

"That's the reason my FFL team name is TrentGreenLeadBlock. When you see this mother****er coming around the corner on a block, put your children to bed and batten down the hatch on your girl's snatch, because the same power that destroys defenders can scar the minds of the youth and simultaneously impregnate any woman within sight, live or on television."

I can put that on my headpiece, and with my best soul shard can get 8% less mana for casting destruction, but it won't let me do those same things on my head or chest.

I don't have this whole filling soulshards thing figured out either. I have a staff of binding, and some dragon kept resisting me on it, and a random mage I was fighting it told me I didn't have a great enough empty soul shard to store his soul.

you must up your skill levels to get the max 25%. like the other guys said use the grand charms. also use

here is a guide for you guys so you know how to get the max gear

1. Once you have 100 in each skill. plus the perks to boost it
2. Enchant fortify alchemy helm, ring, gloves + necklace. The buff should be +25 on each for + 100 total.
3. Put on the gear and make 4 fortify enchant potions (+ 27ish?)
4. Use those potions to make better fortify alchemy gear. Note... You have to be quick because you only have 30 seconds per potion.
5. Use that gear to make better fortify enchanting potions...
6. Keep repeating 4 - 5 until you can make fortify alchemy + 29 on each piece (116 total)
7. Use 4 +32 enchanting pots to create fortify smithing rings, neck, gloves and chest.
8. Make some fortify smithing potions (+130% with your alchemy gear)
9. Craft daedric armor, shield and weapon.
10. Put on your smithing gear, drink the potion (130 + 116 = +246% to smithing), then improve your weapons.
11. Make about 10 enchanting potions (+32)
12. Enchant your gear with the enchants you want

this gives you huge boosts . here is an example of gear made like this. my friend made these he didn't even cap them they can be boosted more if he really wanted to

That is entirely too much work when you're already going to be overpowered even without the maxed out items.

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ZootedGranny:

"That's the reason my FFL team name is TrentGreenLeadBlock. When you see this mother****er coming around the corner on a block, put your children to bed and batten down the hatch on your girl's snatch, because the same power that destroys defenders can scar the minds of the youth and simultaneously impregnate any woman within sight, live or on television."

this has been some interesting reading. I've exhausted both Batman games. on to the next.
so......
MW3 or Skyrim? what say ye?

Should I eat steak or lobster tonight? What say ye?

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ZootedGranny:

"That's the reason my FFL team name is TrentGreenLeadBlock. When you see this mother****er coming around the corner on a block, put your children to bed and batten down the hatch on your girl's snatch, because the same power that destroys defenders can scar the minds of the youth and simultaneously impregnate any woman within sight, live or on television."

As an example, I just went in to a kill X bandit leader quest, and was doing fine taking on two bandits per room going in. Then I get to the last one and there are 5 people. I blast the hell out of the first couple and hurt the third, and am OOM. Lydia traps me from going back out of the room, so I have to run on in and run up and kill the one I hurt with my axe and there are two left. Lydia goes down in a heap while I use a the last of my mana to heal since I was pretty hurt from another caster that was hitting me and I try to use some potions to get mana back up and get my power to regen magic going as well. I zap once, and then one of the melee against me comes up and nails me with a hit that ends it....now doing the whole thing over again since I didn't save before the last room.

I drank about 10 minor healing potions, 4-5 to get magic back up, and still died. Bah.

you guys should not hide from giants. farm them they are one of the best ways to get gold fast. they also always have hides so you can level your smithing. i have the game on the master level an i still 1 shot the giants. the giants hit hard but they never get close to me. sneak an arrow to the head. smithing an enchanting is your friend
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make a cheap set of leather armor an fill it with max smithing enchants an so on i think you get the point. also use enchant and blacksmith potion. when your enchanting max out enchanting so your enchants are more powerful. when sharpen your armor do all the smithing stuff. when done right you can make stuff like this.

that is a sword a friend of mines made doing this

i like the game it is great in so many areas. but it is just retardly easy. i stopped playing as i done pretty much all of the real quests already. i am not doing the endless random ones. an i skipped the bards cuz well they just seemed to gay

If it's so easy, play another character and go full caster, full warrior, full thief, full archer, and even moreso go full conjurer, full destruction, full dw, full 2h, full sword/shield. I mean seriously. You aren't very imaginative. Just throw the game away.

If it's so easy, play another character and go full caster, full warrior, full thief, full archer, and even moreso go full conjurer, full destruction, full dw, full 2h, full sword/shield. I mean seriously. You aren't very imaginative. Just throw the game away.

Yeah, and turn the ****ing difficulty up to Master and see what happens.